2026 Kenneth E. McConnell: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	47	1559	1392	938	816	154	13863

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

1559

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938

816

154

13863

Overview

Kenneth E. McConnell is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics and decision sciences, with a focus on economic and environmental valuation, decision-making and behavioral economics, and experimental behavioral economics studies. The scope also includes plant diversity and evolution as well as botany-related topics.

Their main fields of study cover Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Decision Sciences. Within these, the subfields of Economics and Econometrics and General Decision Sciences are prominent, supplemented by contributions to safety research and molecular biology.

McConnell has frequently published in the following venues:

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Land Economics
Resource and Energy Economics
Harvard Dataverse

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

Jorge Holzer
Alyssa Wu Zhan
J Linhart
Jennifer J. Weber
Kurt M. Neubig

Recent publications by McConnell include:

The Ambiguity of Fishing for Fun, 2022, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
A simple, PCR-based method for the identification of Triodanis (Campanulaceae) species and their hybrids, 2025, Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Welfare with Imperfect Foreknowledge: The Case of Risk Aversion, 2020, Land Economics
Extraction rights allocation with liquidity constraints, 2022, Resource and Energy Economics
Replication Data for: The Ambiguity of Fishing for Fun, 2022, Harvard Dataverse

Best Publications

Valuing environmental and natural resources - the econometrics of non-market valuation.

Timothy C. Haab;Kenneth E. McConnell

2727
Citations
A Review of WTA/WTP Studies

John K. Horowitz;Kenneth E. McConnell

1405
Citations
Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources

Timothy Haab;Kenneth McConnell

1159
Citations
An Economic Model of Soil Conservation

Kenneth E. McConnell

559
Citations
Income and the demand for environmental quality

Kenneth E. McCONNELL

549
Citations
Models for referendum data: The structure of discrete choice models for contingent valuation☆

K.E McConnell

468
Citations
Measuring the Cost of Time in Recreation Demand Analysis: An Application to Sportfishing

Kenneth E. McConnell;Ivar Strand

442
Citations
Referendum Models and Negative Willingness to Pay: Alternative Solutions

Timothy C. Haab;Kenneth E. McConnell

382
Citations
Willingness to accept, willingness to pay and the income effect

John K. Horowitz;Kenneth E. McConnell

341
Citations
CONGESTION AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY: A STUDY OF BEACH USE

Kenneth E. McConnell

298
Citations
Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models

Nancy E. Bockstael;Kenneth E. McConnell

282
Citations
On-Site Time in the Demand for Recreation

K. E. McConnell

279
Citations
Resource Economics: An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

Alan Randall

270
Citations
The economics of outdoor recreation

Kenneth McConnell

269
Citations
Welfare Measurement in the Household Production Framework

Nancy E. Bockstael;Kenneth E. Mcconnell;Gary Becker;William Gorman

251
Citations
Hedonic Prices for Fish: Tuna Prices in Hawaii

Kenneth E. McConnell;Ivar E. Strand

200
Citations
Measuring the Benefits of Improvements in Water Quality: The Chesapeake Bay

N. E. Bockstael;K. E. McCONNELL;I. E. Strand

199
Citations
A Random Utility Model for Sportfishing: Some Preliminary Results for Florida

N. E. Bockstael;K. E. McCONNELL;I. E. Strand

198
Citations
Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources

Timothy C. Haab;Kenneth E. McConnell

194
Citations
Theory and estimation of the household production function for wildlife recreation

Nancy E Bockstael;Kenneth E McConnell

184
Citations
Does Altruism Undermine Existence Value

K.E. McConnell

173
Citations
Referendum Models and Economic Values: Theoretical, Intuitive, and Practical Bounds on Willingness to Pay

Timothy C. Haab;Kenneth E. McConnell

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy E. Bockstael University of Maryland, College Park

Joseph A. Herriges Michigan State University

John A. List University of Chicago

V. Kerry Smith Arizona State University

Frank Lupi Michigan State University

Catherine L. Kling Cornell University

Rolf Färe Oregon State University

John Quiggin University of Queensland

Michael J. Welsh University of Iowa

Roger Tourangeau Westat (United States)

External Links

Personal website of Kenneth E. McConnell

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